Kevin Ramsey

PhD candidate 
Department of Geography

University of Washington

and

Fellow, Project in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
University of Washington, Bothell

Box 353550, Seattle, WA 98195
kramsey@u.washington.edu
206-713-4977

 


curriculum vitae (pdf)

Teaching

Research interests

  • Urban cultural and environmental politics
  • Case study examinations of the tensions between planning, expertise, and democratic practice
  • Theorizing urban and environmental governance, governmentality, and democracy
  • The use of information and communication technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS), in participatory research and activism

Current and recent research efforts

Recent and forthcoming publications

  • Ramsey, K. (forthcoming). A Call for Agonism: GIS and the Politics of Collaboration Environment and Planning A.

  • Ramsey, K. (forthcoming). GIS, Modeling, and Politics: On the Tensions of Collaborative Decision Support. Journal of Environmental Management Special Issue on "Collaborative GIS: Perspectives on decision support and visualization"

  • Ramsey, K. S., & Wilson, M. W. (forthcoming). Rethinking the 'informed' participant: Precautions and recommendations for the design of online deliberation. In T. Davies & B. Noveck (Eds.), Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

  • Nyerges, T., Ramsey, K., & Wilson, M. W. (2006). Design considerations for an internet portal to support public participation in transportation improvement decision making. In S. Dragicevic & S. Balram (Eds.), Collaborative GIS. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.

  • Nyerges, T., Jankowski, P., Tuthill, D., & Ramsey, K., ( 2006). Collaborative water resource decision support: results of a field experiment. Annals of the American Association of Geographers

  • Jankowski, P., Robischon, S., Tuthill, D., Nyerges, T., & Ramsey, K. (2006) Design considerations and evaluation of a collaborative, spatio-temporal decision support system. Transactions in GIS

  • Ramsey, K. (2004) Stakeholder Involvement and Complex Decision Making: A Case Study into the Design and Implementation of a GIS for Supporting Local Water Resource Management. Unpublished Master's thesis. University of Washington, Seattle.

 

Last updated: January 23, 2008